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“FIFTEEN Dead, Crippling Property Losses” screamed the front page of The Northern Star on February 25, 1954.

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1954-like flood would cost $3.6b and rival Brisbane's 1974

1954 Northern Rivers flood

1954 Northern Rivers flood

A GALLERY of flood photographs showing many different flood events in the Ballina Shire has now been compiled by the council including a photo from 1893.

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Ballina council catches 120 years of floods on film

'THE beans are from Colombia. There's a taste of apple and pear, with a savoury after-flavour."

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AUDREY Gwillim did not expect anyone to believe her when she undertook to go skydiving for her 80th birthday

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WHENEVER anyone mentions floods in the Lower Richmond, people can quickly remember the 1974 and 1954 events.

News

1948 floods remembered

<strong>8.20PM UPDATE:</strong> AN EVACUATION order has been issued for Harwood as thousands are stranded across New South Wales by rising flood waters.

Natural Disasters

The big wet: Evacuation order issued for Harwood

BOB MCKENZIE Snr can still remember the day Queen Elizabeth II arrived at Lismore's Gollan Hotel as part of her 1954 Coronation tour of Australia.

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A boy and a monarch

IPSWICH regional sport has lost one of Ipswich and Queensland's finest rugby league players Denis Flannery.

Rugby League

Roos legend sadly missed

A young Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, landed at Evans Head and were escorted to Lismore this time 58 years ago.

News

Remembering our brush with royalty

LITTLE more than a decade ago, Australia seemed poised to reject the British monarchy in favour of a home-grown head of state.

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Death of Australian republicanism

STAUNCH monarchist John Brett will be on his couch watching Queen Elizabeth's visit to Brisbane live on TV. And he would not miss it for anything in the world.

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Monarchist won't miss royal visit

PAST pupils, current students and teachers at St Carthage's primary school in Lismore have turned back time while celebrating the school's 125th anniversary.

News

Turning back hands of time

THERE is a whole world of motion pictures documenting the history of the North Coast just waiting to be delved into, and Dr Robert Smith is the one to expose it.

Local

North Coast history exposed

THE owners of Goat Island on the Richmond River are on a mission to convince the council to let them build a house there, despite the flood risk.

NSW

Fight to build island home

A STORM event with the potential to devastate local coastal communities is just around the corner, a coastal expert has warned.

Local

Get ready for stormy weather

WHEN Casino woman Fran White was just 10 years old, her family home was destroyed in the 1954 floods.

Local

1954 flood victim repays kindness

SOME Northern Rivers communities and individual properties will remain isolated for more than a week despite floodwaters easing across the region.

NSW

Flooding keeps properties isolated

AS the floodwaters began to recede yesterday morning, Timothy Wilkinson was chest-deep in the murky brown liquid trying to herd water hyacinth.

Local

Weed suffocating crop

URBENVILLE remains cut off despite falling floodwaters opening access to many of the Northern Rivers’ western communities.

Natural Disasters

Urbenville still cut off by floods

THE flood threat hanging over the Northern Rivers’ main population centres has eased with comparatively little damage.

Natural Disasters

Flood threat eases

HAVE you noticed something missing in the Lismore CBD?

Local

Missing flood signs mystery

BALLINA High School students had a ride on the school's light amphibious resupply cargo vehicles – LARCs which can go on land and on water.

Local

Marine studies a bit of a LARC

AFTER more than 90 years of mystery, Betty Turner finally knows what happened to her Uncle Jack during the war.

Local

The mystery of Uncle Jack finally solved

FLOOD 'hot spots' across the entire Richmond River catchment area have been identified in a new report which has taken almost five years to complete.

Local

Flood 'hot spots' identified

THE STORY of Roger East, the 'forgotten man of the Balibo saga' and one-time Northern Star journalist, is finally being told in the newly-released film, Balibo .

Local

Journalist's story finally told

RESIDENTS of Tatham say the stench from a proposed chicken manure storage facility will make their lives unbearable and could be washed into the nearby Richmond River leading to massive fish kills.

Local

Stink over chicken poo

AT the same time residents in Lismore were breathing a sigh of relief that their levee had held, Coraki residents were bracing for the worst.

Local

Coraki braces for floodwater

A LOCAL government body set up to drain swamps in the 1950s is now tasked with looking at how to recreate those complex wetland ecosystems.

Environment

Flood authority fixes past mistakes

FAR North Coast surf lifesaving stalwart John Watson will notch a half-century when the Australian Championships hits the beach today.

Water Sports

Fifty years in the making

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